Chemical Find Shuts Down 2 LA Reservoirs

December 15, 2007 By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Two reservoirs that supply drinking water to parts of the nation's second-largest city have been shut down and will be drained because a rare sunlight-fueled chemical reaction tainted them with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday.

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nilbud - Dec 16, 2007
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So those Arabian looking guys with the barrels had nothing to do with it.
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out7x - Dec 19, 2007
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No mention of how long bromate has been forming. Sunlight has been around a long time.
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